Taras Kuzio received a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from the University of London, a Phd from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. Currently a Toronto-based Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Senior Fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Previously he has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan, and the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, a Visiting Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Taras Kuzio has been a long-term consultant on Ukrainian elections, democratisation and corruption to governments, political, legal and business clients. He is currently writing a book on Ukrainian regionalism, the Donbas and the separatist conflict and is the author and editor of fifteen books, including Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (2015), Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future Democratic Revolution in Ukraine (2011), From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (2009), Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (2007) and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2007) and has guest edited special issues of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Society, Nationalities Papers and Journal of Ukrainian Studies. He has authored over 100 think tank monographs, book chapters, and scholarly articles on post-communist and Ukrainian politics. As a public intellectual he has appeared on television and radio and extensively written on post-communist and Ukrainian politics for media and specialist publications Eurasia Daily Monitor, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, United Press International, and elsewhere.